With the fall season fast approaching, it's time for Campus Circle to dive into the upcoming fall film releases along with the remaining slate of films that will close out the summer. Here we go!
UNDER THE VOLCANO
ON DEMAND AND DIGITAL: August 17, 2021
DIRECTOR: Gracie Otto
WRITERS: Cody Greenwood, Gracie Otto and Ian Shadwell
FEATURING: Andy Summers (The Police), Gerry Beckley, Giles Martin, Guy Fletcher (Dire Straits), Jimmy Buffet, Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits), Midge Ure, Nick Rhodes (Duran Duran), Roger Glover (Deep Purple), Stewart Copeland (The Police), Sting (The Police), Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath), Verdine White (Earth, Wind & Fire) and more!
SYNOPSIS: Under the Volcano charts the rise and fall of AIR Studios Montserrat, the recording studio at the centre of the pop universe in the 1980s. Built by Beatles’ producer Sir George Martin in 1979, AIR Studios Montserrat was a custom-built, state-of-the-art recording facility tucked away on a Caribbean paradise. In the shadow of an active volcano, the studio not only attracted the biggest musical talent on the planet, but was the birthplace of mega-hits such as Money for Nothing and Every Breath You Take. For a decade, AIR Montserrat formed the backdrop to monumental events in music history including the break-up of The Police, the reunion of The Rolling Stones, and the reinvigoration of Paul McCartney after the tragic murder of John Lennon. After a decade of hits, and at the peak of its popularity, the studio was destroyed when the island was hit by a series of devastating natural disasters. Through personal accounts and backed by a blistering soundtrack, Under the Volcano is the definitive account of George Martin’s Studio at the end of the world, a place that generated a perfect storm of talent, technology and isolation, ushering in music that would live on long after the last tape rolled.
RUN TIME: 90 minutes
RATING: Not Rated
GENRE: Documentary
DISTRIBUTOR: Universal Pictures Content Group
DEMONIC
IN THEATERS: August 20, 2021
ON DEMAND AND DIGITAL: August 20, 2021
DIRECTOR: Neill Blomkamp
WRITER: Neill Blomkamp
CAST: Carly Pope, Chris William Martin, Michael Rogers
SYNOPSIS: A young woman unleashes terrifying demons when supernatural forces at the root of a decades old rift between mother and daughter are ruthlessly revealed in this horror-thriller from director Neill Blomkamp.
RUN TIME: 102 minutes
RATING: R
GENRE: Horror, Sci-Fi
DISTRIBUTOR: IFC Midnight
YOUTUBE OFFICIAL TRAILER: https://youtu.be/dUUtdDnxRuY
NO MAN OF GOD
IN THEATERS: August 27, 2021
ON DEMAND AND DIGITAL: August 27, 2021
DIRECTOR: Amber Sealey
WRITER: Kit Lesser
CAST: Elijah Wood, Luke Kirby, Aleksa Palladino, Robert Patrick
SYNOPSIS: In 1980, Ted Bundy was sentenced to death by electrocution. In the years that followed, he agreed to disclose the details of his crimes, but only to one man. NO MAN OF GOD is based on the true story of the strange and complicated relationship that developed between FBI agent Bill Hagmaier and an incarcerated Ted Bundy in the years leading to Bundy's execution.
RUN TIME: 100 minutes
RATING: Not Rated
GENRE: Drama / Thriller
DISTRIBUTOR: RLJE Films
YOUTUBE TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vxm_IbS-6Y
IT TAKES THREE
ON DIGITAL AND ON DEMAND: September 3, 2021
DIRECTOR: Scott Coffey
WRITERS: Logan Burdick, Blair Mastbaum
CAST: Jared Gilman, David Gridley, Aurora Perrineau
SYNOPSIS: When the coolest guy in school discovers that the new girl sees through his popularity and good looks, he enlists the class nerd to take over his social media accounts to add substance to his style. Signals are crossed and hearts are broken, but in this postmodern rom-com nothing turns out exactly as you’d expect.
RUN TIME: 90 minutes
RATING: NR
GENRE: Comedy, Romance, Independent
DISTRIBUTOR: Gunpowder & Sky
THE GATEWAY
IN THEATERS, ON DEMAND AND DIGITAL: September 3, 2021
ON DVD AND BLU-RAY: September 7, 2021
DIRECTOR: Michele Civetta
SCREENPLAY BY: ??Alex Felix Bendaña and Andrew Levitas & Michele Civetta
CAST: Shea Whigham, Olivia Munn, Taryn Manning, Mark Boone Junior, Taegen Burns with Frank Grillo and Bruce Dern
SYNOPSIS: Shea Whigham (American Hustle), Olivia Munn (X-Men: Apocalypse), and Frank Grillo (The Grey) star in this gritty, edge-of-your-seat crime-thriller. Whigham is Parker, a down-on-his-luck social worker who finds himself in over his head when he tries to protect his client from her recently paroled husband. Can Parker save the family from the violent threat of the maniacal drug dealer and his crew, desperate to reclaim their priceless stash?
RUN TIME: 91 minutes
RATING: R for strong violence, pervasive language, drug use, some sexual content and nudity.
GENRE: Crime/Thriller
DISTRIBUTOR: Lionsgate
YOUTUBE TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhzRU54jQtk
LADY OF THE MANOR
IN THEATERS, ON DEMAND AND DIGITAL: September 17, 2021
ON DVD AND BLU-RAY: September 21, 2021
DIRECTORS: Justin Long, Christian Long
WRITERS: Justin Long, Christian Long
CAST: Melanie Lynskey, Judy Greer, Justin Long, Luis Guzmán, Ryan Phillippe
SYNOPSIS: Past and present collide in this supernaturally funny buddy comedy when stoner-slacker Hannah (Melanie Lynskey) is hired to portray Lady Wadsworth (Judy Greer), a Southern belle who died in 1875, in a tour at Wadsworth Manor. Hannah, a hot mess, figures she can fake it —until the ghost of Lady Wadsworth appears! Lady Wadsworth tells Hannah it’s time to change her wild ways — and she’ll haunt her until she does — in this hilarious movie co-starring Justin Long and Ryan Phillippe.
RUN TIME: 96 minutes
RATING: Rated R for language throughout, sexual material and drug use
GENRE: Comedy
DISTRIBUTOR: Lionsgate
PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND
IN THEATERS: September 17, 2021
ON DEMAND AND DIGITAL: September 17, 2021
DIRECTOR: Sion Sono
WRITERS: Aaron Hendry & Reza Sixo Safai
CAST: Nicolas Cage, Sofia Boutella, Nick Cassavetes, Bill Moseley, Tak Sakaguchi, Yuzuka Nakaya
SYNOPSIS: In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber (Nicolas Cage) is sprung from jail by wealthy warlord The Governor (Bill Moseley), whose adopted granddaughter Bernice (Sofia Boutella) has gone missing. The Governor offers the prisoner his freedom in exchange for retrieving the runaway. Strapped into a leather suit that will self-destruct within five days, the bandit sets off on a journey to find the young woman—and his own path to redemption.
RUN TIME: 100 minutes
RATING: Not Rated
GENRE: Action/Adventure
APACHE JUNCTION
IN THEATERS: September 24, 2021
ON DEMAND AND DIGITAL: September 24, 2021
DIRECTOR: Justin Lee
WRITER: Justin Lee
CAST: Stuart Townsend, Trace Adkins, Scout Taylor-Compton, Ed Morrone, Victoria Pratt, Thomas Jane
SYNOPSIS: Apache Junction is an outpost of lawlessness, a haven for thieves and cold-blooded killers. After big-city reporter Annabelle Angel (Scout Taylor-Compton) arrives to write an article on the town, she becomes a target when notorious gunslinger Jericho Ford (Stuart Townsend) comes to her aid. Now Annabelle must entrust her future to a man with a deadly past, as Jericho heads toward a tense showdown in this thrilling Western that unloads a double-barreled blast of action. Costarring country music superstar Trace Adkins and Thomas Jane.
RUN TIME: 94 minutes
RATING: R
GENRE: Western/Action
DISTRIBUTOR: Saban Films
WITCH HUNT
IN THEATERS: October 1, 2021
ON DIGITAL AND ON DEMAND: October 1, 2021
DIRECTOR: Elle Callahan
WRITER: Elle Callahan
CAST: Gideon Adlon, Abigail Cowen, Christian Camargo, Elizabeth Mitchell
SYNOPSIS: In a modern America where magic is real and witches are persecuted by US authorities, teenager Claire and her family are part of an intricate network that helps these women escape across the border to seek asylum in Mexico. However, when their mode of transport is disrupted by federal witch hunters, trouble befalls the family as they struggle to hide two young witches within the walls of their home. As witch hunters close in and strange magic begins haunting the family, Claire discovers that she may have more in common with these witches than she could have ever imagined.
RUN TIME: 98 Minutes
RATING: TBD
GENRE: Thriller, Horror, Drama
DISTRIBUTOR: Momentum Pictures
SURVIVE THE GAME
IN THEATERS, ON DEMAND AND DIGITAL: October 8, 2021
ON DVD AND BLU-RAY: October 12, 2021
DIRECTOR: James Cullen Bressack
WRITER: Ross Peacock
CAST: Bruce Willis, Chad Michael Murray, Sarah Roemer
RUN TIME: 99 minutes
RATING: R
GENRE: Action
SYNOPSIS: Bruce Willis (Pulp Fiction) and Chad Michael Murray (“Riverdale”) star in this wild, rollicking crime thriller. When cop David (Willis) is injured in a drug bust gone wrong, his partner Cal chases the two criminals who shot him. They all land at a remote farm owned by troubled vet Eric (Murray), and as Cal and Eric plot their defense, more of the gang arrives—along with a wounded David. Outnumbered, the three heroes must use stealth, smarts, and good shooting to take down the drug-dealing mob.
DISTRIBUTOR: Lionsgate
THE SPINE OF NIGHT
IN THEATERS: October 29, 2021
ON DIGITAL AND ON DEMAND: October 29, 2021
DIRECTOR: Philip Gelatt, Morgan Galen King
WRITER: Philip Gelatt, Morgan Galen King
CAST: Richard E. Grant, Lucy Lawless, Patton Oswalt, Betty Gabriel and Joe Manganiello
SYNOPSIS: In THE SPINE OF NIGHT, an ultra-violent fantasy epic, ancient dark magic falls into sinister hands and unleashes ages of suffering onto mankind. A group of heroes from different eras and cultures must band together in order to defeat it at all costs.
RUN TIME: 94 minutes
RATING: Not Rated
GENRE: Fantasy / Horror
DISTRIBUTOR: RLJE Films
BOILING POINT
IN THEATERS: November 19, 2021
ON DIGITAL AND ON DEMAND: November 23, 2021
DIRECTOR: Philip Barantini
SCREENPLAY BY: James Cummings & Philip Barantini
CAST: Stephen Graham, Vinette Robinson, Alice Feetham, Hannah Walters, Malachi Kirby, Izuka Hoyle, Taz Skyler, Lauryn Ajufo, Daniel Larkai, Lourdes Faberes, Jason Flemyng, Ray Panthaki
SYNOPSIS: On the busiest day of the year, long-simmering tensions between Chef Andy Jones (Stephen Graham), his staff and management threaten to boil over into full scale war. Adding to his shift from Hell, a former mentor's attempted hostile takeover of the restaurant threatens to derail his livelihood and his life.
RUN TIME: 92 minutes
RATING: Not Yet Rated
GENRE: Drama, Thriller
DISTRIBUTOR: Saban Films
ZEROS AND ONES
IN THEATERS, ON DEMAND AND DIGITAL: November 2021
DIRECTOR: Abel Ferrara
WRITER: Abel Ferrara
CAST: Ethan Hawke, Cristina Chiriac, Salvatore Ruocco, Valerio Mastandrea
RUN TIME: 86 minutes
RATING: R
GENRE: Thriller
SYNOPSIS: An American soldier stationed in Rome when the Vatican blows up, embarks on a hero's journey to uncover and defend against an unknown enemy threatening the entire world.
DISTRIBUTOR: Lionsgate
MULTIVERSE
IN THEATERS: November 12, 2021
ON DEMAND AND DIGITAL: November 16, 2021
DIRECTOR: Gaurav Seth
SCREENPLAY BY: Doug Taylor
CAST: Paloma Kwiatkowski, Munro Chambers, Robert Naylor, Sandra Mae Frank, and Marlee Matlin
SYNOPSIS: Parallel universes collide in this gripping, sci-fi thriller when four young scientists conducting experiments in quantum entanglement discover messing with the spacetime continuum is not without consequences. As seemingly exact replicas of themselves begin to appear, a violent chain reaction is set in motion that threatens their very existence and the balance of the universe.
RUN TIME: 90 minutes
RATING: Not Yet Rated
GENRE: Sci-Fi, Thriller
DISTRIBUTOR: Saban Films
SNAKEHEAD
IN THEATERS: October 29, 2021
ON DEMAND AND DIGITAL: October 29, 2021
DIRECTOR: Evan Jackson Leong
WRITER: Evan Jackson Leong
CAST: Shuya Chang, Jade Wu, Yacine Djoumbaye, Catherine Jiang, Richie Eng and Sung Kang
SYNOPSIS: Sister Tse comes to New York through a Snakehead, a human smuggler. She gains favor with the matriarch of the family of crime and she rises the ranks quickly. Soon Tse must reconcile her success with her real reason for coming to America.
RUN TIME: 89 Minutes
RATING: NR
GENRE: Crime, Thriller
DISTRIBUTOR: Samuel Goldwyn Films, Roadside Attractions
NEEDLE IN A TIMESTACK
IN THEATERS, ON DEMAND AND DIGITAL: October 15, 2021
ON DVD , BLU-RAY: October 19, 2021
DIRECTOR: John Ridley
WRITER: John Ridley (based on the short story of the same name by Robert Silverberg)
CAST: Leslie Odom Jr, Cynthia Erivo, Orlando Bloom, Freida Pinto, Jadyn Wong
SYNOPSIS: If love is in the form of a circle, what lines would you cross to be with your soulmate? In this gripping, near-future love story directed by Oscar® winner John Ridley, Nick and Janine (Oscar® nominees Leslie Odom, Jr. and Cynthia Erivo) live in marital bliss, until Janine’s ex-husband (Orlando Bloom) warps time to try to tear them apart using Nick’s college girlfriend (Frieda Pinto). As Nick’s memories and reality disappear, he must decide what he’s willing to sacrifice in order to hold onto — or let go of — everything he loves. Can love endure in a future where time is fluid, and all of life may be just an illusion?
RUN TIME: 111 minutes
RATING: R
GENRE: Romance, Sci-fi
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